Week 1 - Quiz_ HCA460_ Health Care Administration Capstone (HCN2124A)
Due Jun 13 at 11:59pm Points 30 Questions 30 Time Limit 180 Minutes
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Complete the quiz on the assigned textbook readings for the week. The quiz contains 30 multiple choice and true-or-false questions. It is worth 4% of your course grade. You will have three attempts and 3 hours for each attempt to complete the quiz. The highest score will be shown in the gradebook.
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Score for this attempt: 28 out of 30 Submitted Jun 5 at 12:23pm
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Question 2 1 / 1 pts
All of the following contribute to an increasing burden on the U.S. healthcare system EXCEPT
a shortage of doctors, hospitals, and nurses.
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Which of the following provisions of the Affordable Care Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2012?
The requirement that states must expand Medicaid eligibility
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How do emergency rooms contribute to rising healthcare costs?
People without insurance use the emergency room for nonemergency treatment.
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How many foreign patients travel to the United States to receive medical care each year?
60,000–85,000
Question 6 1 / 1 pts
Dr. Gomez finds herself practicing defensive medicine. In doing so, she
performs more diagnostic tests.
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Which of the following challenges constitutes the essence of the modern U.S. healthcare debate?
Balancing the goals of cost control, quality, and access
Question 8 1 / 1 pts
Among the 17 richest countries in the world, the U.S. spends
the most per capita on healthcare and has the lowest overall life expectancy.
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Lisa has completed a three-year training program in internal medicine. Her job responsibilities include providing care for patients who need immediate medical attention and continuing care once an acute condition is resolved. Lisa is most likely a .
primary care physician
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Question 11 1 / 1 pts
Which of the following would be MOST likely to work with infants and toddlers who have, or are at risk for, developmental delays?
occupational therapist
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Which of the following is NOT a job duty that would be performed by a dental hygienist?
Removing an impacted tooth
Question 13 1 / 1 pts
support physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners in administrative and some clinical tasks such as giving injections; in larger practices or hospitals, they may specialize in either administrative or clinical work and must be adept at electronic medical record-keeping.
Medical assistants
Question 14 1 / 1 pts
Burnout among physicians is quite common. Reasons for job dissatisfaction and low morale of
physicians include all of the following EXCEPT
patients have begun to assume too much of the responsibility for their health.
Question 15 1 / 1 pts
Catherine sought treatment from a healthcare practitioner for her frequent migraines. The practitioner told her to stop smoking and get more exercise, recommended she take acetaminophen for mild migraines, and also prescribed Imitrex, a triptan, for more severe migraines. The type of healthcare practitioner Catherine MOST likely visited was a .
doctor of medicine
Question 16 1 / 1 pts
Regulation of the fast food industry is most closely an example of a .
macro policy
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According to the author, the public and private health systems have a relationship.
partnership
Question 18 1 / 1 pts
Which of the following presents the policy cycle in the correct order?
agenda-setting; policy formulation; decision-making; policy implementation; policy evaluation
Question 19 1 / 1 pts
Which federal agency is primarily responsible for responding to public health emergencies?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Question 20 1 / 1 pts
Which piece of legislation led certain drugs to be designated as prescription only?
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938
Question 21 1 / 1 pts
What was the essence of Louis Pasteur’s germ theory?
Microscopic organisms exist that can invade a human and cause disease.
Question 22 1 / 1 pts
Which department was the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) originally part of?
Department of Agriculture
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Healthy People 2020—which aims to improve Americans’ health by 2020—is an example of
.
policy development
Question 24 1 / 1 pts
Why are some physicians resistant to the idea of evidence-based medicine (EBM)?
They believe EBM curtails their autonomy and flexibility.
Question 25 1 / 1 pts
How does a pay-for-performance reimbursement system operate?
It pays higher reimbursements to doctors whose patients have the best health outcomes.
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Josephina is in charge of implementing new procedures at Canfield Medical Center that will make it easier for patients and other authorized entities to access and use health information. Which of the following terms can BEST be applied to Josephina’s task?
patient-facing technology
Question 27 1 / 1 pts
Policymakers have proposed all of the following means to revise the healthcare system to promote greater accountability when employing medical technology EXCEPT
less monitoring of medical decisions by insurers without a medical background.
Question 28 1 / 1 pts
According to the author, what is one of the bioethics community’s greatest concerns regarding electronic health records (EHRs)?
EHRs may be used improperly for pharmaceutical research and targeted advertising.
Question 29 1 / 1 pts
Which of the following was a drawback of coronary stents before Abbott Laboratories developed a new type of stent?
They left metal scaffolding inside arteries, which carried risks for future complications.
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Fred has a pacemaker implanted in his chest; among other things, the device sends data wirelessly to Fred’s doctor. This is an example of .
telemetry
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